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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, October 16 2012 @ 06:58 PM EDT |
I don't know if Windows can be secured. It can be locked down quite a bit, but
that is not the same as being secure.
It is much easier to use another operating system. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, October 16 2012 @ 07:40 PM EDT |
| But no ones ever been able to prove it. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: globularity on Tuesday, October 16 2012 @ 08:31 PM EDT |
<sarcasm>It's fun, </sarcasm> The snap ins do a half baked job, the
registry editor is where the real power lies. I don't give a windows box network
access until most of the software is installed and it is locked down, once it is
locked down installing software is difficult as it should be. There is another
advantage of a locked down machine, Fast boot and a much smaller memory
footprint. I am old school. if it isn't running or capable of running then it is
not a vulnerability.
Windows has always made a complete botch up of handling user data. The
underlying security is there, the implementation is the problem.
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Windows vista, a marriage between operating system and trojan horse.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Gringo_ on Wednesday, October 17 2012 @ 12:32 AM EDT |
I'm a Windows user - since Windows 3.1 I develop software
on that platform.
One of the first things I do when I begin
with a new version of the OS is lock
it down. I carefully
examine all the processes running on the machine. Many are
cryptically labeled so it is impossible to know what they
are for. One by one,
I research them on Google and shut down
the service running the process if my
research tells me I
don't need it.
However, I am too clever by far. I
don't really know what
I am doing. In time, I will discover things that don't
work,
and wonder why. In one case, it took me many days to
discover why I
couldn't write to a CD in the drive (or
something like that, I don't recall
exactly). It always
turns out in the end that I had killed some essential (and
probably harmless) service or one of its dependencies!
If you want
advice on how to lock down your platform,
just ask me. By the time you have
implemented the steps I
would suggest, you will be as safe as you can be on
Windows.
Just don't complain a month later when you find strange
problems with
your platform - things that just won't work no
matter what you try :) [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: marcosdumay on Wednesday, October 17 2012 @ 10:19 AM EDT |
Windows always have standing known security vunerabilities. Thus, it is never
secure.
You can lock some things so doing them require some knowledge and persistence.
That is not making it secure.
And, by the way, you can't really lock a computer against the person that sits
in front of it. Whatever system it is running.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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- No, it can not - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, October 17 2012 @ 12:38 PM EDT
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